Trade Statistics October 2018 :Total imports in million Pula = P7,268.5 Total Exports in Million Pula= P3,316.7 Trade Balance in Million Pula= (3,951.8)

Index of Electricity Generation Q3 2018 = 184.3

2015/16 National Poverty Incidence: 16.3%

2018 Average Annual Inflation Rate: 3.2%

Unemployment Rate ( BMTHS 2015/16 ) = 17.7%

2011 Population Census = 2,024,904

2019 Projected Population = 2,338,851

Professor Keoagile Thaga

Vice Chairperson

Associate Professor, (2010)

PhD in ..., University of Manitoba, Canada (2003)

MSc in ..., University of Manitoba (1994)

BA in ..., University of Botswana (1991)

Professor Thaga has conducted various consultancies including: “A ComprehensiveSituational Analysis: Botswana Demographic Survey” (2008); “Baseline on theDevelopment of HIV Behavioural Risk Reduction Intervention Programmes for PLWHASin Support Groups and Clinical Care”; and “Baseline HIV/AIDS Situation and ResponseAnalysis in Ten Health Districts in Botswana”. In 2006, he conducted atraining workshop on Statistical Process Control for the Botswana Bureau of Standards (BOBS)

He has served as Chairperson of the University of Botswana’s Departmental Graduates Studies Programme Review Committee since 2006; was Coordinator, DepartmentalGraduate Studies from 2004 to 2008); and is a Member of the Statistical Quality Assurance Committee and an External Examiner for the Botswana Public Service College (formerly the Botswana Institute of Administration and Commerce) and technical colleges Countrywide.

Data Portal

Following are Statistics Botswana web-based data platforms used for organising, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing.

Each of these portals has a dedicated database system, modelled for specific data types (microdata and aggregate data).

Catalogue

Statistics Botswana is a parastatal organization charged with responsibilities of collecting and disseminating all official statistics in Botswana. The autonomy of the organisation was realised under the Statistics Act of 2009, repealing the archaic 1967 Act, under which Central Statistics Office was formed....Read more